Fic: In the Hands of Yes

[hth]

In the Hands of Yes
by Hth

32,834 words of Aliens Made Them Get Married, and don't say I never gave you anything!

"There’s a ritual, Colonel! Do you know what *kind* of ritual? You have no idea! There could be – it could be dangerous, or, or – perverse!"

Comments

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

This was unbelievably rich and real and dead funny and full of wonderful moments and great characterization. I am filled with love for this and want to wrap it around myself like a warm and fuzzy blanket. Its rightness is as apparent as macaroni and cheese and I am too busy feeling full and warm to give coherent feedback but here are just a few things I loved--the Teyla-talking-to in the gateroom, the Man Planet (!) Ronon fanciers (I kind of want there to be an epic song about Ronon), that whole passage of Rodney's thoughts on how he feels about Ronon, the details in the sex with the bowl spinning and Satedan, the bits about Kell and Rodney's awful childhood and marriage freakout, John's understated freakout which you can read as missed chances or that single-thing when your friends shack up (or bonus-both!), the Atlantis love . . .oh all right the whole gosh darned story!

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

Oh! And I forgot to mention the videos and both Rodney and Ronon's surprise backstory (and man would I have loved to have heard the conversation that they had on the podium) and Rodney calling John out (and I think that conversation (and my usual John/Rodney filters) is what gave me repressed!John though looking at it I think it is more friends-changing freakout) and Cadman and Teyla riding herd as well. Ok, backing away from the keyboard now and going to cuddle some more. . .

[hth-the-first.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.

This was a story where it was really hard to articulate John's feelings clearly, because John wasn't very in touch with them himself. That's always a stumbling block. I was also trying to move especially gently around that whole John/Rodney thing, because he *is* jealous in a whole host of ways, but not sexually jealous. But then, how do you work that into the story, knowing that any time you make John say he's not interested in Rodney, it suddenly sounds defensive, and like he totally is interested in Rodney? *g* It was tricky!

But on the other hand, there's something totally cool about writing a story with a friendship that other people can then slash if they want to *g* Bring your own subtext!

Anyway, thanks for the feedback!